>> americans never liked taxes. they didn't like taxes without representationment they didn't like taxation with representation. they revolted a few times, the whiskey rebellion. there was quite a bit of antitax sentiment in america. that said, the constitution is virtually unlimited in its taxing power it gives to the government, and hamilton wrote about that need to collect taxes, and in there -- a number of places he says, i think very straightforward, doesn't make it into the glen beck version, these essays -- but says that it's politically difficult to vote to raise taxes and always going to be politically different to vote to raise tacks. you do not ever want to do anything to add a structural difficulty by putting something in the constitution to limit the ability to raise taxes because you can't foresee the future. that it is dramatically irresponsible to do something like, oh, i don't know, take a pledge saying you will never in your life as a legislator vote continue crease taxes. >> host: grover nordquist